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HELIANTHEMUM ocymoides 



Basil-like Sun- Rose. 



Sect. I. HALIMIUM. Supra, fol. 4. 

 * Stylo brevi recto. 



H. ocymoides, caule suffruticoso ramoso, ramis erectis incanis, 

 foliis caulinis obovatis vel ovato-oblongis trinerviis subsessilibus 

 viridibus : ramulorum petiolatis dorso carinatis apice reflexis 

 utrinque incanis, pedunculis longis ramoso -paniculatis, pedicellis 

 oppositis alternisque subumbellatis, calycibus trisepalis glabris 

 valde acuminatis, petalis obcordatis basi distinctis. 



Helianthemum ocymoides. DC. prodr. 1. p. 267. Pers. syn. 2. p. 76. 

 Swt. hart. brit. p. 34. n. 3. Spreng. syst. veg. 2. p. 586. 



Cistus ocymoides. Lam. diet. 2. p. 18. Cistus sampsucifolius. 

 Cavan. ic. I. p. 65. t. 96. non Milleri.Clus. hist. 1. p. 72. ic. 



Stem suffruticose, erect, much branched : branches 

 erect, densely clothed with a white tomentum, and a 

 few long white hairs intermixed. Leaves opposite : 

 on the lower part of the stem green, obovate, ovately 

 oblong, or oblongly lanceolate, sessile or nearly so, 

 attenuated at the base, slightly 3-nerved, acute or 

 sometimes bluntish, rather concave, nearly straight, 

 the upper side covered with long spreading hairs : 

 upper leaves petiolate, shorter and broader, with re- 

 curved points, keeled at the back, the margins curved 

 inwards ; very white and hoary on both sides, by being 

 densely clothed with a close white tomentum. Petioles 

 short, also densely clothed with a close pressed white to- 

 mentum. Flowers on a long branched panicle. Pedun- 

 cles of a brownish purple, glossy, more or less clothed 

 with long spreading white hairs. Bractes sessile, 

 opposite, ovately lanceolate, acute, keeled, points a little 

 recurved, smooth and glossy. Pedicles 3 or more flow- 

 ered, in a kind of umbel, opposite on the lower part of 

 the panicle, on the upper part alternate. Calyx smooth 



